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Kathleen Sullivan
CEO
Before joining Bright Sky, Kathleen owned and operated The Sullivan Group, LLC, serving speakers and authors by managing their talent and maximizing their intellectual capital. She specializes in building and developing business. She has extensive experience in product conception and development from initial content, negotiating rights, contracts, licensing and endorsements, content review, publishing coordination, product promotion, and marketing and sales distribution.
Prior to opening her own firm, she served as chief operating officer for a nationally recognized speaker and author, helping expand his book and speaking opportunities through videos, audiotapes and CDs, website content development and the development and management of speaker bureau relationships, and she served corporations in several management positions, focusing in the areas of marketing, promotion and sales. As CEO of Bright Sky Press, Kathleen oversees the moving parts of the Press, keeping us all going and growing smoothly.
Ellen Peeples Cregan
Creative/Production Director
Ellen studied at Parsons School of Design in Paris, France before receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Advertising from The University of Texas at Austin. Before founding Cregan Design in 1993, she worked extensively in magazine and textbook design at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and other respected architectural and graphic design firms.
Since 1993, her firm has strategically grown into an award-winning organization with a solid reputation for design excellence. At each stage of creation, Ellen implements the quality control measures that assure the hallmark of a Cregan Design project: on-time, on-budget delivery of a distinctive product that precisely embodies the client's vision.
As Creative/Production Director for Bright Sky Press, Ellen utilizes the talent and expertise at Cregan Design to enhance Bright Sky's book design, marketing materials, and internet presence. Passionate about the synergy of communication and design, Ellen ensures that each Bright Sky Press project meets her demanding standards of excellence. Her experience providing large, multi-phase projects such as annual reports, catalogs, manuals, elaborate brochures, and books to satisfied clients demonstrates her ability to deliver quality products with a turn-key approach.
Lucy Herring Chambers
Editorial Director
Lucy began her career in the Junior Literary Guild in New York City. She apprenticed with Nan Talese and David Gernert, editors of Pat Conroy, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan and John Grisham, before becoming an Editor at Doubleday & Co. where she acquired and edited a wide range of authors and genres including fiction by Sarah Bird, Laurie Stone, and Jane Leavy; literary first novelists such as Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn; and worked with non-fiction authors as diverse as Nolan Ryan and David Crosby. At Doubleday, she also handled the lists of Issac Asimov and Paul West, conceptualized The New York Times bestseller The Southern Belle Handbook: Why Princess Margaret Will Never Be a Kappa Kappa Gamma by Marilyn Schwartz, and wrote The Petting Zoo, with "Jungle Jack" Hanna. In addition, she worked as a book designer, a literary agent, and a bookstore clerk. Returning home to Houston, she taught English at St. John's School, taught Early Childhood classes and worked as a free-lance writer and editor for individuals and organizations including M. D. Anderson's Children's Art Project, The Waxman Literary Agency, and St. John's School.
As Editorial Director of Bright Sky Press, Lucy brings a broad understanding of books, writing and communicating to every project. She handles acquisitions, contracts, and oversees all editorial functions. Each book demands an individualized shaping process, and Lucy's intuitive ability to focus an author's or an institution's material allows her to provide the most appropriate editorial help possible. Bright Sky's editorial capabilities range from conceptualizing to providing a writer, and from structural edits to copy edits and final proofs. In addition, Lucy is responsible for the Press's copywriting needs, assuring that all communications, from distributor forms to marketing copy for catalogs and collateral pieces, accurately reflect the project. Her goal is to maximize Bright Sky authors' ability to express their messages in books that exemplify their visions and voices and convey them to the broadest market possible.
Kathleen Sullivan
CEO
Before joining Bright Sky, Kathleen owned and operated The Sullivan Group, LLC, serving speakers and authors by managing their talent and maximizing their intellectual capital. She specializes in building and developing business. She has extensive experience in product conception and development from initial content, negotiating rights, contracts, licensing and endorsements, content review, publishing coordination, product promotion, and marketing and sales distribution.
Prior to opening her own firm, she served as chief operating officer for a nationally recognized speaker and author, helping expand his book and speaking opportunities through videos, audiotapes and CDs, website content development and the development and management of speaker bureau relationships, and she served corporations in several management positions, focusing in the areas of marketing, promotion and sales. As CEO of Bright Sky Press, Kathleen oversees the moving parts of the Press, keeping us all going and growing smoothly.
Ellen Peeples Cregan
Creative/Production Director
Ellen studied at Parsons School of Design in Paris, France before receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Advertising from The University of Texas at Austin. Before founding Cregan Design in 1993, she worked extensively in magazine and textbook design at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and other respected architectural and graphic design firms.
Since 1993, her firm has strategically grown into an award-winning organization with a solid reputation for design excellence. At each stage of creation, Ellen implements the quality control measures that assure the hallmark of a Cregan Design project: on-time, on-budget delivery of a distinctive product that precisely embodies the client's vision.
As Creative/Production Director for Bright Sky Press, Ellen utilizes the talent and expertise at Cregan Design to enhance Bright Sky's book design, marketing materials, and internet presence. Passionate about the synergy of communication and design, Ellen ensures that each Bright Sky Press project meets her demanding standards of excellence. Her experience providing large, multi-phase projects such as annual reports, catalogs, manuals, elaborate brochures, and books to satisfied clients demonstrates her ability to deliver quality products with a turn-key approach.
Lucy Herring Chambers
Editorial Director
Lucy began her career in the Junior Literary Guild in New York City. She apprenticed with Nan Talese and David Gernert, editors of Pat Conroy, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan and John Grisham, before becoming an Editor at Doubleday & Co. where she acquired and edited a wide range of authors and genres including fiction by Sarah Bird, Laurie Stone, and Jane Leavy; literary first novelists such as Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn; and worked with non-fiction authors as diverse as Nolan Ryan and David Crosby. At Doubleday, she also handled the lists of Issac Asimov and Paul West, conceptualized The New York Times bestseller The Southern Belle Handbook: Why Princess Margaret Will Never Be a Kappa Kappa Gamma by Marilyn Schwartz, and wrote The Petting Zoo, with "Jungle Jack" Hanna. In addition, she worked as a book designer, a literary agent, and a bookstore clerk. Returning home to Houston, she taught English at St. John's School, taught Early Childhood classes and worked as a free-lance writer and editor for individuals and organizations including M. D. Anderson's Children's Art Project, The Waxman Literary Agency, and St. John's School.
As Editorial Director of Bright Sky Press, Lucy brings a broad understanding of books, writing and communicating to every project. She handles acquisitions, contracts, and oversees all editorial functions. Each book demands an individualized shaping process, and Lucy's intuitive ability to focus an author's or an institution's material allows her to provide the most appropriate editorial help possible. Bright Sky's editorial capabilities range from conceptualizing to providing a writer, and from structural edits to copy edits and final proofs. In addition, Lucy is responsible for the Press's copywriting needs, assuring that all communications, from distributor forms to marketing copy for catalogs and collateral pieces, accurately reflect the project. Her goal is to maximize Bright Sky authors' ability to express their messages in books that exemplify their visions and voices and convey them to the broadest market possible.
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